the book's key priorities

The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace sees the following as key priorities:

• Bringing democracy to the EU, the UN and the WTO: first, by posting ministers to serve in these bodies; and then by nations directly electing these representatives. Right now, in terms of 'Yes Minister' the international institutions are run by Sir Humphrey with Jim Hacker just turning up once a month to sign the papers;
• Substituting new energies for oil as an urgent national security priority impelled by the military, financial, environmental and development dangers of the present oil-dependent policy. Shifting to vehicles run on renewable hydrogen and other fuels should be begun on a wartime-style crash programme;
• Developing Corporate Social Responsibility in the further and progressive limitation of the limited liability company law, so that the corporate sector is forced to operate ethically within the rule of law.

  Making the linkages of power to responsibility and equality before the law into a powerful rhetorical defence for those under corporate attack, and a strong platform for restoring a mixed economy. This is key to reducing the economic grievance over the excesses of capitalism;

• The systematic control of all weapons around the world - building on the great achievements of arms control in the Gorbachev era;
• Strengthening democracy against both terrorists, and the authoritarian trends in the West, by making a commitment to democratic heritage as a core Western value in public and political education opening up a new heritage market elevating historical role models of democratic activism.